Looking for Period Novels Like the Laid-Back Life of a Train Water Tender in 1979 求类似1979，火车供水员的悠闲生活的年代文小说。
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I Transmigrated to 1960 and Had No Food, So I Caught a Spy to Make Some Money 穿越六零没饭吃，抓个敌特换钱花
[Super-Strong Female Lead in a Period Setting: Strong, Strong, Strong] Xiang Nuan spent three years struggling to survive in the apocalypse. Now thirteen, she unexpectedly kicks the bucket and transmigrates to the late 1960s, into a poor working-class family. Her father couldn’t get a word out of him even if you beat him with three sticks, and he fretted over every little thing. Her mother was timid and submissive. She also loved having children, believing that the more children a family had, th
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- 52 The 1960s: I Earned Promotions and Raises at the Department Store 六零年代，我在百货大楼升职加薪 [Period Setting] [Beautiful Heroine] [Family and Neighborhood Drama] [Factory Promotions] [Face-Slapping the Awful Ones] [Building a Career] [Male Lead Appears Late] Back in 1965, I sold goods at a department store, and somehow ended up selling my way into becoming the city’s top official? After transmigrating to the 1960s, she starts out in a family with two government employees and senior officials? Before Lin Wanqiu can even enjoy lying flat, a sense of crisis pushes her to roll up her sleeve 4.1kReads—Score43314d adds
- 53 Promotion Diary of a 1960s Supply and Marketing Cooperative 六零供销社升职记 When she opened her eyes, modern accountant Su Qingyu had become a high school student in Liuhé Brigade in 1964. Her family had nothing, her class background was poor, and she couldn’t even get a substitute teaching job. All she could do was toil in the fields for six work points a day. Then the accounts at the commune supply cooperative became a complete mess, with a discrepancy of seventeen yuan, three jiao, and eight fen that no one could reconcile. While everyone else was at a loss, Su Qingy 249Reads—Score—14d adds
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From Railway Cook to a Mogul of the Era 从铁路炊事员到时代大佬
[Political career + no AI + literary plagiarism + space + wealth + no saintly protagonist + if you don't like it, fight] The workplace isn't about following the rules. Only by breaking convention can you earn an exceptional promotion. Those who dutifully handle personnel matters by the book have little chance of becoming leaders, so we need to be troublemakers, the ones who stand out from the crowd. We should also learn to cut corners and work the system, rather than burying ourselves in hard wo
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At the Source of the Peach Blossom Spring 桃花源头
As Old Zhou Nian lay dying, he took Zhou Liye by the hand and told him, “Xiaoye, it's up to you to carry on the Zhou family line. If you trace our family back far enough, we go all the way to the Zhou dynasty, to King Wen of Zhou, King Wu of Zhou, Ji Chang, and Ji Fa. Our ancestors were once members of the imperial family, and our original surname was Ji. It was only after the dynasties changed that our family took the surname Zhou! Here's our ancestral genealogy and the family heirloom, this ja
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Siheyuan: From the Start, the Whole Family Gathered Around to Cry 四合院：开局全家人围着哭
(Period Setting + Siheyuan Courtyard + Pocket Dimension + Mild Antagonism + Carefree + Multiple Heroines?) Li Zifeng was an utterly ordinary poor young man from a later era. After accidentally getting swept up in the transmigration craze, he was dropped straight into 1943, in Kaoshan Village. By chance, he became the apprentice of an eccentric master who spent all day drinking fake liquor and lived a carefree, easygoing life. He learned a unique set of unorthodox skills that were down-to-earth a
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- 57 I Send Li Yunlong Weapons from the Start, and Everyone Loses It 开局送李云龙军火，所有人都麻了 They get a shipment of weapons from the start. Li Yunlong is stunned. Kong Jie is stunned. The brigade commander is stunned. The division commander is stunned. Everyone is stunned. The author updates reliably and has completed works including Battle Through the Heavens, A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality, Douluo Dalu, The Three-Body Problem, The King's Avatar, Nirvana in Fire, Shrouding the Heavens, Sword of Coming, A Will Eternal, Who Let Him Cultivate Immortality, The Grave Robbers' 2.4kReads8.5Score10914d adds
- 58 War of Resistance: They Promised Infantry Support, but the National Team Joins the Fight 抗战：说好单兵支援，国家队下场 Shanghai, 2025. The city lights before short-video creator Bian Yun’s eyes turn in the next instant into the smoke-filled battlefield of Songhu in 1937. Alone, he stands amid the ruins of the Baoshan defensive position, which is about to fall. Before him are Japanese tanks and bayonets; behind him are civilians who could not be evacuated in time and six hundred soldiers resolved to defend their ground to the death. “My name is Yao Ziqing. Who are you?” “My name is Bian Yun. I’m from... New Chi 14.1kReads7.4Score98114d adds
- 59 I Handed Over the Anti-Japanese War System, and the Nation Told Me to Lead the Troops into Battle 上交抗战系统，国家让我带队杀敌 At 24, Li Chen is struck by a streak of light in an accident. When he wakes up, he finds himself on the Songhu Battlefield in 1937. The artillery and smoke make him realize he has traveled more than eighty years into the past. A mysterious System grants him the ability to travel between the two eras, along with a heavy responsibility. The System’s rules are simple and ruthless: every invader he kills earns him one point. These points are his only means of bringing more people and equipment bac 16Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 60 Arrested for Storming a Military Zone? I'll Lead the Nation to Fight the War! 强闯军区被捕？我带国家去抗战！ [Handing it over to the nation + time-space portal + the steel tide + dimensional superiority + conquering countless worlds] At twenty-two, Xia Qi was struck by the “Beacon of Myriad Worlds” and discovered he could open a portal through time and space! That wasn’t all: it also came with a portable pocket dimension! On his first transmigration, he was alone in a world shattered by war, with corpses strewn across the land. He realized that an individual’s strength was as insignificant as dust 92kReads8.6Score7.5k14d adds
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Reborn in a Northeastern Mountain Village: Fishing and Hunting Across Two Rivers and Two Nations 重生东北小山村渔猎两江两国
Please give this five stars. Please give this five stars. I don't have much education or skill, and I can't write fancy prose. I use ordinary people's language to tell an ordinary story. If you like it, I thank you for your support with a clasped-fist salute. If you don't, please be kind and don't flame me. An artist can't make a living without noble-minded patrons. I offer my thanks to all of you, my dear supporters.
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- 62 My Youth Was Like a Pile of Mud 我的青春，好似一摊烂泥 (Youth, School Life, Growing Up, Everyday Life, Redemption) Told in the first person, this is a coming-of-age story about a bad boy who matches wits with students and teachers at his school. They save one another and gradually grow up. My name is Fang Yuan. Ever since I was a child, I've been different from other people's kids. Girls say I'm as thick as a log, and my friends say I'm selfish. But I never thought there was anything wrong with that. Because I'm not a good person to begin with. W 156.1kReads9.5Score11.4k14d adds
- 63 The 1970s Matchmaker Who Talks the Young Master from the Capital into Becoming a Live-In Son-in-Law 七零小媒婆，忽悠京少当赘婿 Many years later, some friends sat together chatting. "Have you noticed that every village used to have a fool or a madman?" "Yeah, yeah! That madman would even go around hitting people!" Dou Xiaochan: Hehe, I'm the fool and madwoman you were talking about... Shen Moci: I'm the one who was tricked into going home as a live-in son-in-law by the fool and madwoman you were talking about... "What?!" Everyone's eyes nearly popped out of their heads. Shen Moci: To be honest, I was really scared at the 28.4kReads8.8Score3.4k14d adds
- 64 The 1980s: Good Women Are Loved, Bad Women Are Fought Over 80，好女人有人爱坏女人有人抢 [One heroine to many men + period setting + System + womanizer heroine + multiple male leads + no exclusive pairings + unconventional values...] After Su He died, she transmigrated into an eighties-era rural widow. The original owner died in the same bed she was born in, and there was a man in it, too. She was lucky enough to get a golden finger when she transmigrated: a System. But she wasn't so lucky after all. Her golden finger was a little embarrassing, because Su He's System was called the 54.2kReads8.2Score7.9k14d adds
- 65 The 1990s Highway Queen: All My Exes Are Big Shots 九零公路女王我的前任们都是大佬 [Female-Centric, One Woman and Multiple Men! A sultry widow in the 1990s becomes a business tycoon behind the wheel, but can't shake off her clingy, powerful ex-boyfriends!] (1990s setting + romance on the road + no fixed pairing early on, later she picks whoever she likes + the heroine doesn't follow so-called wifely virtue.) After waking up, Fan Meili finds herself a notorious female truck driver in the 1990s. Her predecessor was highly capable, but her romantic history was even more “impressi 20.3kReads9.1Score1.5k14d adds
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Traveling Between Two Worlds: The 1970s 两界穿梭之七零年代
Wu Xiaoyao is a working-class nobody, a corporate drudge who likes to unwind by grilling skewers and letting loose whenever he has a bit of free time. But an out-of-control dump truck sends him hurtling back to the fiery age of the 1970s. What surprises him is that he can travel back and forth between the seventies and 2025. Two completely different eras now lie before him.
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- 67 Traveling Between Two Worlds: The Red-Hot Years 两界穿梭之火红年代 Li Xiaren is an ordinary office worker, trudging through grueling days that start at eight in the morning and end at midnight. One day, after finally getting several months of back pay, he plans to give himself a well-deserved break. Who could have guessed that eating a grilled kidney for no apparent reason would send him back to the 1970s when he woke up? Luckily, he discovers he can return to 2025, and so two completely different eras open up before him!!! 254Reads7.6Score10114d adds
- 68 Passing Myself Off as a Rich Returnee in the 1980s 在八零伪装回国土豪 Su Tianci, an ordinary working stiff for 25 years, spends his free time exploring the wilderness. By chance, he discovers a box full of U.S. dollars. Overjoyed, Su Tianci starts dreaming about where to go for a meat-stuffed flatbread. But before he can even celebrate, he slips and inexplicably tumbles off a cliff. When he comes to again, he has somehow arrived in an era full of opportunity… 7.9kReads5.8Score33814d adds
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A Double Crossing to Make a Fortune in Republican-Era China 双穿之民国淘金
Li Xiaren had spent 25 years as a wage slave, living at the bottom of society and crushed by the pressure of making ends meet. No matter how hard he worked to earn money, he still couldn't afford a home of his own. Even his longtime girlfriend left him. Downhearted, he finally managed to collect the wages he'd been owed and planned to head to Tian Shang Ren Jian for a stuffed flatbread. But who could have guessed? A ball of lightning struck him and sent him straight back to a turbulent era. More
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- 70 Twin Rivers: Bloodbath in Republican-Era Shanghai 双川民国之沪上血战 Su Tianci has spent 25 years as a working stiff. After leaving the military, he has the job he earned stolen by someone with power and influence. His attempts to seek justice come to nothing, and with the other side's overwhelming influence, he has no choice but to become a delivery driver. Who could have guessed that while performing a good deed, he'd be struck by a heavy truck and sent straight to the Republican era? Then his transmigration golden finger turns out to let him travel between the 172Reads7.2Score14914d adds
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Siheyuan: I Have a Door Between Two Worlds 四合院：我有一扇两界门
[This work is entirely handwritten, with no AI. Please enjoy it with confidence.] One day, a livestream room called [Welcome to the Siheyuan World] suddenly appeared on a certain short-video platform. It featured young versions of Silly Zhu, Xu Damao, Yi Zhonghai, and Qin Huairu, along with an extra named Wang Tieshi. This extra had a truly endless supply of relatives and friends. Every few days, another one would show up, played by a famous star everyone knew. Only when the official Ninth Burea
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I Transmigrated to the 1960s and Activated a Storage Ring 穿越60年代，我激活了储物戒指
Zhu Chengcai is an ordinary wage slave who dreams of getting rich overnight and living a blissful life: waking up naturally after a good night's sleep and counting so much money his fingers cramp. Instead, he has ended up as a wage slave with not a moment to spare. Just as he's preparing to return to his hometown, lie flat, and wait to die, he saves a little girl on the road and unexpectedly transmigrates to the 1960s, where he accidentally activates a storage ring he'd obtained by chance. So Zh
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- 73 Reborn in 1992: Rising to the Top Starting in Middle School 重生1992，从中学开始逆袭 In his previous life, Lin Wenjie was made a fool of. His father was framed, and his family was destroyed. Reborn in his high school days, he planned to use his memories of the future to earn his first fortune, save his family, and crush his enemies. Then he would live a happy, peaceful life. But by chance, he bought a damaged little tower from an antiques dealer, and it set him on the path to immortal cultivation. From then on, he kept finding priceless treasures and made a fortune in the stock 15.1kReads8.4Score1.9k14d adds
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The Violent Woman of the Sixties Takes on Everyone 六零暴力女干翻全场
Keywords: Strong Female Lead, Feel-Good Revenge, Rise to Success in the 1960s After a starship explosion sent her from a monster-infested interstellar world, Jiang Sidong opened her eyes in the body of a young girl in 1959. Her original self had been literally tormented to death by her paternal aunt’s family, and the three years of famine had only just begun. She looked at the cracked earth, and at people driven to sell their sons and daughters for a piece of tree bark... As she cultivated her p
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- 75 The Capitalist Heiress Takes Up Military Engineering 资本家小姐搞军工 Lin Jiaoyue transmigrates. The good news: she becomes the pampered daughter of Jiangnan's richest family. Her parents dote on her, the house is piled high with gold bars, and an ancestral jade pendant unlocks a pocket dimension complete with a Suzhou-style garden and an underground storeroom, where she can grow crops and keep things fresh! The bad news: it's 1950! Given the course of history, her family background is a death sentence. With political upheaval on the horizon, this capitalist fami 38.7kReads8.2Score6.6k14d adds
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After I Refused the Last-Minute Dowry Increase on My Wedding Day 结婚当天我拒绝了临时加彩礼之后
Rebirth + Top Student + Multiple Heroines + Daily Life + School Life + Smart Characters + No System + Entertainment Industry + Lighthearted Comedy. Starts out as a school-life story, then moves into the entertainment industry and the internet. 4.6 million characters, so there’s plenty to dig into. Well worth a read. A short drama adaptation is now available. Search for the novel’s title to watch. Thanks for your support. ^_^~
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- 77 Reborn in 1982: This Rogue Refuses to Become a Street Loafer 重生八二：浪子绝不做街溜子 Chen Weiguo is reborn on October 24, 1982, the day before his family falls apart. In his previous life, he was a no-good drifter: idle and irresponsible. He caused his wife and daughter to die tragically, and after his family was shattered, he had no choice but to leave home. He worked hard all his life, only to die alone. This time, he has the chance to start over. Life may be tough, but he's determined to shake off his reputation as a drifter and give his family a good life. Once despised by e 43.1kReads7.9Score4k14d adds
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Siheyuan: Getting Rich Quietly 四合院：闷声发大财
Courtyard Life #Period Fiction #Comedy #Feel-Good Fiction #Old Fox #Harem #Farming Fiction He transmigrated to 1952 and became Chen Yuanshan, an apprentice at Fengzeyuan. His father was a martyr and left him 13 million in old currency and two main rooms. He thought he could lie flat, but the courtyard was full of beasts. Jia Zhangshi sat on the ground every day, wailing, “Old Jia! Someone’s bullying me!” Silly Zhu called every woman “Sister Qin” and beat up Xu Damao whenever he saw him. Xu Damao
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The Road to Promotion in the 1980s: She Made Her Mark Through Her Own Ability 年代升迁路：她凭实力出圈
[Period] [Career] Dai Xinghua wakes up in 1972 in the body of an orphan who shares her name. Her parents died in the line of duty, and their home is about to be repossessed. Looking at the hand she’s been dealt, former “career star” Dai Xinghua takes a deep breath. Stay calm. I can win! She sticks firmly to her principles: What does it matter how much you work? We’re all just cogs in the machine. Don’t compete, don’t fight. But when it comes to my job, I’ll do it to the best of my ability
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Back to 1982: The Good Life of Building Homes and Raising Kids 重回八二：盖楼养娃好日子
The rating has just been posted and will gradually rise! In 1982, Lin Xiangdong was reborn at the age of twenty-two. In his previous life, he had been a construction contractor, saving money for half his life. But just as he was finally able to give his wife, Su Xiaoxiao, a comfortable life, she died of illness. While sorting through her belongings, he found a ledger. She had kept it for over twenty years, recording every piece of clothing she bought her husband and every school fee she paid for
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- 81 Period: My 1977 年代：我的1977 Nineteen-year-old Zhang Jianguo was sawing wood, with calluses on his hands thicker than tree bark. He was a poor young man from the Shandong countryside, and an “educated man” taught by his mother, who had been sent to the countryside as an educated youth. His younger siblings were waiting for him to send money home, his father spent his days bent over the fields, and his mother had endured a life of hardship. Everyone said he should accept his lot and be content with an honest job as a factory 2.2kReads6.8Score14414d adds
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A Trader Between Two Worlds: From 1988 to 2025 两界倒爷从1988到2025
Su Tianci was an unemployed street loafer in 1988. He was planning to head into the mountains to hunt for some meat, but accidentally fell off a cliff. When he opened his eyes, he had transmigrated to 2025, an age of booming economic growth. Even more astonishingly, two vastly different eras now lay before him, and he could travel back and forth between them.
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- 83 Reborn in 1999: The Pinnacle of Life 重生1999，人生巅峰 Su Tianci was a senior engineer in 2025. While coding, he suddenly died at his keyboard. When he opened his eyes again, he found that he had been reborn in 1999, just after taking the college entrance exams. Su Tianci looked at his youthful reflection in the mirror. A bright smile gradually spread across his face. He never expected to be reborn in an era where gold was everywhere. Watch as Su Tianci uses the knowledge he gained decades ahead of his time to stand atop the world. 189Reads—Score—14d adds
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Great Tang's Number One Menace 大唐第一祸害
His Majesty Li Er was furious. “My machine-gun company has been lured away by that little menace again?!” A minister replied carefully, “Your Majesty, the Japanese envoy was a month behind on his liquor tab at Wangfujing, so the Crown Prince… the Crown Prince just…” Li Er looked disdainful. “Nonsense! Japan is a friendly neighbor of our Great Tang. They’re only a little behind on payment. Would he really go that far?” The minister answered cautiously, “Your Majesty… the debt is 108,000 strings o
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- 85 Reborn in 1980: From Courtyard Menace to Peerless National Scholar 重生80，从大院祸害到国士无双 The winds of change are sweeping through 1980! Ye Xiaotian, chief engineer at a high-tech company, is unexpectedly reborn. His memories of future technology become a blade with which to turn the tide of the era. With a deluge of patents in his left hand, he drives his rivals straight into bankruptcy. With black-tech blueprints in his right, he forces foreign companies to grovel. Just as foreign firms are preparing to sweep across China with their wired remote controls, he sneers: “Infrared wirel 4.8kReads6.3Score29114d adds
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Blind Date System: From Village Girl to Woman of the Era 相亲系统：从村姑到时代女强人
Blind Date System + Period Setting + Comeback + Winner in Life + 1v1 Sweet Romance + Everyday Life + Pure Wish Fulfillment In 1975, Chen Hehua's classmate stole the job she was supposed to get after graduation. When she returned to her village, her family pressured her to marry a crude butcher. Just when she had nowhere else to turn [Ding! Blind Date System successfully bound!] [Get a reward for every blind date! Choose any one requirement your match has to exchange for a reward!] Butcher's
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Middle-Aged in Shanghai: I’ve Hidden My Medicinal Wine Ability for 20 Years 上海中年：我藏药酒异能苟20年
In 2006, Shanghai was swept up in a wave of reform. Large numbers of veteran workers at state-owned enterprises were laid off, and a lifetime of stability vanished overnight. At forty, Zhang Jianguo saw his eighteen years of service wiped out. His buyout compensation was slashed, and in middle age he had no one to rely on while raising a young daughter. To feed his family, he took grueling construction jobs, did backbreaking labor, suffered wage deductions, and endured bullying, struggling eve
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My Dongguan Dream: Sister Mei 我的东莞梦：媚姐
Sister Mei's advice to me: The women at entertainment venues are just for looking. Don't get serious with them. Sister Mei also said: Don't get any ideas about me, either. [A story about working for a living, perhaps with a little of me, you, and him in it.]
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- 89 Specimen Shop Memories: A Collection of Spin-Off Short Stories 记忆标本店衍生短篇集 A Collection of Short Stories Inspired by The Specimen Shop of Memories —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 90 Tracing the Mirror Blossom 镜花寻踪 Tracing the Mirror Blossom 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 91 The Wooden Fish Awakens the Coffin 木鱼醒棺 The Wooden Fish Wakes the Coffin —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 92 Sugar Figures Seal Evil 糖人封祟 The Sugar Figurine Seals the Evil —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 93 Brick Carvings Ferry Spirits 砖刻渡灵 Brick Carvings Guide Spirits Across —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 94 The Reed Flute Calls the Egrets 苇笛唤鹭 The Reed Flute Calls the Egrets —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 95 Folk Custom Guardian System: I Set the Internet Ablaze with Traditional Crafts! 民俗守护系统：我靠老手艺爆火全网！ The Folk Custom Guardianship System: I Take the Internet by Storm with Traditional Crafts! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 96 The Guardian's Ledger on the Stone Slab: Keeping Accounts by Listening to the Wind 岩板上的守护账，听风记账 The Ledger of Guardianship on the Stone Slab, Keeping Accounts by Listening to the Wind —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 97 The Spirit Child Returns to Its Place 灵童归位 The Spirit Child Returns to Its Place —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 98 Immortal Fate of the Brocade Abyss 锦渊仙缘 Immortal Romance in Jinyuan —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 99 The Sugar Figurines I Make Come to Life. One Even Bit Someone 我做的糖人他会跑。还咬了人 The Sugar Figures I Make Can Run. They Even Bite People —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 100 I Planted Ten Osmanthus Trees, and a Girl in White Walked Out of the Abandoned House 俺种了十颗桂花树，荒宅竟走出来白衣姑娘 I Planted Ten Osmanthus Trees, and a Maiden in White Walked Out of an Abandoned House —Reads—Score—14d adds
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